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Use Your Brains, People!The inventor of the Palm Pilot PDA, Jeff Hawkins, has written a book called "On Intelligence" in which he claims that decades of AI research have failed miserably and that his models will lead to truly intelligent machines. AI has provided lots of innovations in computer science but not truly intelligent machines.

The idea of the Turing test was that a computer would be intelligent if it could mimic human behavior - we don't care what goes on in the brain, as long as we have the right output. But it does matter. Deep Blue playing chess is not intelligence.
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You write that the brain doesn't compute answers, it retrieves them from memory.The neural cortex is not like a computer. It's just a huge memory system. When I take a drink, I'm not calculating how to move my arms; I'm recalling sequences